Russell Crowe

It is something to have in your DNA.

I was thinking about what we might talk about, and there's a story I like to tell.

If you're into it, it's quite a long story, though.

Please.

So back in the 90s, the thing about this story is it sort of like just casually shows you how much of a circus the film industry can be, you know what I mean?

And part of the attraction of it when I was a young actor and, you know, later in my 20s moving to Australia and doing theatre and stuff like that and then looking at film people as sort of like a rare breed, you know?

And then you get into it and you realize you've got to be pretty much crazy to do this.

Sort of like this.

Over time, it's gotten definitely safer, more insurance conscious and all of these things.

But back in the day, not so much.

Everything was about just getting the shot.

So...

92 is the first time I go to Los Angeles.

But I'd already made a bunch of films in Australia and I'd been to the Cannes Film Festival.

So my first time traveling outside of Australia and New Zealand was 1991.

So I was like 27 or something like that, you know.

And then the year after, I went to L.A.

and got an agent.

But I'd won a bunch of awards in Australia and my films had been around to different film festivals and stuff.

So there was awareness of what I was doing in the industry, so to speak.